Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?

[Anonymous]

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The snarky posters here who are too cool for masks and mocking all concern about covid right now had better be people without kids in local schools. Go over to the forum for FCPS, for instance. Look at the thread about teachers and other staff being out an unusally high amount right now, and since school started, due to covid. Teachers are posting about it there and in other online teacher forums I follow. Covid, not colds or flu or stress. It's rampant in my spouse's workplace right now too.

It's spreading fast and while you can claim it's "no worse than a cold," the outcomes for anyone who has other health issues, even fairly minor ones, can still be devastating. We still don't know enough about long covid or other outcomes to be so stupidly cavalier.

Sadly, the "get over it/it's a cold" crowd feels less than zero responsibility for public health, or for the health of strangers they'll never meet, but to whom they can still infect through community transmission. They figure those vulnerable, even marginally vulnerable, folks should just stay home forever -- the one thing they, themselves, scream they should never have to do. Hypocritical AND science-averse at the same time.

Yes, I go out. About to leave for the grocery store and Target. Will mask and carry on. We go to church, to theaters, on trips, etc. We just mask and don't go when the hordes are there. We're not hiding in the basement like the anti-maskers and science deniers love to claim we are. We're not cowering indoors. But we also are not stupid enough to think we're magically going to be perfectly fine if we get infected.

Oh, yeah -- the whole "once you have it, you have antibodies" thing? True, for a while. But repeated infections also apparently increase the chances of long covid, which the deniers want to pretend Isn't A Thing. We'll stick with living life and getting out, but doing it on our own terms with masks indoors and avoiding crowds. Keep thinking we're all paranoid and trembling inside our houses. It's a lie you tell yourselves so you feel superior and strong.

Or else what will you do? LOL. We are living life as normal. You can cover your face with 18 masks for all I care. We will never wear those nasty snot rags ever again. You go ahead and breathe in tiny plastic particles from that mask you insist on wearing. I'll go ahead and breathe fresh, clean air - as humans have done for all eternity! Ahhhhhh!

But yeah, keep on with that COVID lifestyle. Weirdo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anything - skipping indoor events or dining? Masks? Or just business as usual? Just curious.

I've gone from three masks to four masks.

I see your four masks and I raise you four masks PLUS goggles. You can get it through your eyes, you know.

No faceshield?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The snarky posters here who are too cool for masks and mocking all concern about covid right now had better be people without kids in local schools. Go over to the forum for FCPS, for instance. Look at the thread about teachers and other staff being out an unusally high amount right now, and since school started, due to covid. Teachers are posting about it there and in other online teacher forums I follow. Covid, not colds or flu or stress. It's rampant in my spouse's workplace right now too.

It's spreading fast and while you can claim it's "no worse than a cold," the outcomes for anyone who has other health issues, even fairly minor ones, can still be devastating. We still don't know enough about long covid or other outcomes to be so stupidly cavalier.

Sadly, the "get over it/it's a cold" crowd feels less than zero responsibility for public health, or for the health of strangers they'll never meet, but to whom they can still infect through community transmission. They figure those vulnerable, even marginally vulnerable, folks should just stay home forever -- the one thing they, themselves, scream they should never have to do. Hypocritical AND science-averse at the same time.

Yes, I go out. About to leave for the grocery store and Target. Will mask and carry on. We go to church, to theaters, on trips, etc. We just mask and don't go when the hordes are there. We're not hiding in the basement like the anti-maskers and science deniers love to claim we are. We're not cowering indoors. But we also are not stupid enough to think we're magically going to be perfectly fine if we get infected.

Oh, yeah -- the whole "once you have it, you have antibodies" thing? True, for a while. But repeated infections also apparently increase the chances of long covid, which the deniers want to pretend Isn't A Thing. We'll stick with living life and getting out, but doing it on our own terms with masks indoors and avoiding crowds. Keep thinking we're all paranoid and trembling inside our houses. It's a lie you tell yourselves so you feel superior and strong.

Or else what will you do? LOL. We are living life as normal. You can cover your face with 18 masks for all I care. We will never wear those nasty snot rags ever again. You go ahead and breathe in tiny plastic particles from that mask you insist on wearing. I'll go ahead and breathe fresh, clean air - as humans have done for all eternity! Ahhhhhh!

But yeah, keep on with that COVID lifestyle. Weirdo.

You clearly care or you would not post this nonsense.